Yeah, we had a lot of BBSs in Missouri for some reason. And of course the great COIN network allowed free vt100 access to the Internet circa 1990 (Gopher, FTP, and telnet! Http not yet invented).
Some times I miss those days, if only for the 16-color ANSI graphics...

Twenty-four years ago today, I had a very bad day. On August 8, 1988, I was a senior in high school. I was working my after school and weekend job at Safeway as a cashier, when the store manager suddenly walked over and said I better stop ringing up customers and talk to my mother on the stor...